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This dissertation examines the self-fashioning of the multiple personae of two subversive historical figures: the dandy and the demimonde in nineteenth-century British culture. Tracing the dandy and the demimonde from the Regency period to the end of the century, this project ex…

This dissertation examines smugglers as they appeared in English print culture from their first appearance as "smuckellors" in a 1661 Royal Proclamation to 1766 when Parliament repealed the Revenue Act of 1764 amid protests over the government's crackdown on the vital molasses s…

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford is well known to British history, but poorly recognized by those outside of the British Isles. Irish born but a life-long loyalist, Stanford was passionate about his identity as a British gentleman. While home rule was constantly on the political ag…

This dissertation argues that the figure of Tipu Sultan and the spectacle of the Mysore Wars were a key contributor to shifting British attitudes about empire in the late eighteenth century. Tipu was the ruler of the Indian state of Mysore, acknowledged by contemporaries to be a…

The dissertation renders a comprehensive account of the economic, social, and political implications of the Great Depression of the 1930s for colonial Northern Nigeria, focusing particularly on how various groups of Northern Nigerians—farmers, workers, traders, chiefs, and the e…

My dissertation compares British, German, and French Romantic drama, emphasizing women writers' plays about female combatants in the French Revolution. The term French Revolutionary Theater denotes an extended metaphor for examining the drama of death, war, and political protest…

In the United Kingdom, the tradition of the wind band is primarily found in the military. Great Britain, in 1845, published almost no music for wind band. It fell upon each bandmaster to compose or arrange suitable music for the regiment's band. Carl Boose, bandmaster of the Sco…

This study of academic art of late nineteenth-century Britain attempts to show how it participated in the creation and transformation of the national mythology of the Victorian Empire, specifically regarding military and economic policies in North Africa. Most importantly, it ex…

This thesis traces a set of economic, political, and religious themes woven through the mythology of King Arthur during the reign of the Tudor monarchs. Beginning in the reign of Henry VII, the story of King Arthur as told by Sir Thomas Malory underpinned a Celtic cultural reviv…

Throughout the 1950s, as international anti-colonialism gained momentum, the US government showed consistent support for its colonial allies, particularly Britain. Washington pursued this course even at the risk of losing the cold war sympathy of the newly-independent peoples, w…

As discussions about the hijab circulate in twenty-first century Western Europe, it seems as though few lawmakers are looking to the narratives and experiences of Muslim and South Asian women to give voice to the practice. This thesis looks at the poets Kamala Das, Imtiaz Dharke…

The work of contemporary British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE is widely described as theatrical. This characteristic is especially present in the most well-known segment of his practice: his work in three dimensions, which often stages headless mannequins wearing copies o…

Following the Congress of Berlin, Cyprus was among the first territories to experience direct colonization and it thus represents a unique case study of colonizer and colonized interaction. Nevertheless, the significance of the formative first decade of British rule has been ove…

Building on work in European history on culture and identity, as well as recent trends in diplomatic history, I explore questions of imperialism, nationalism, identity, and Orientalism and examine how the British press and other forms of public discourse, such as theater and ser…

The following study examines the manner in which nineteenth-century British novels use a Semitic discourse to imagine and construct Christian English people as racially pure. One result of the growing presence of assimilated Jewish people living in England in the nineteenth cent…

Ontological and metaphysical issues are rarely associated with theatre because theatre emphasizes performance while questions of Being have been addressed primarily by philosophical inquiry. But philosophy and literature have traditionally intersected, because the meaning of exi…

This thesis seeks to examine the nature of political theatre within the postmodern context. I distinguish between the historical alternative theatre and the paradoxical alternative theatre in my work. The historical alternative coincides with the alternative theatre movement dev…

This study explored honour and shame for South Asian British Muslim men and women. It aimed to offer plausible answers to the definition, concept, impact and gender differences of honour and shame for this sociocultural and faith group of people. This qualitative piece of resear…

Unionism in Ulster is often considered to be paradoxical and paradox is commonly thought to make its politics radically incoherent. From this perspective, Unionists are simultaneously too British and not British enough, a perspective which lends itself to the explanatory categor…